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Petals on the Wind

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Petals on the Wind	comment	Petals on the Wind, written by V. C. Andrews, published in 1980, is the second book in the Dollanganger Series.The plot picks up immediately after the events of the first novel after the Dollanganger children escape from the attic. The kids are adopted by Paul Sheffield, a kindly doctor who puts them each through school. Cathy finally fulfills her dream of becoming a world-famous ballerina, using her fame to fuel her revenge against her mother, while becoming embroiled in a series of tempestuous love affairs, including her Will They or Won't They? relationship with her brother Chris. Everyone Has Lots of Sex, until tragedy strikes, hardening Cathy's resolve to expose her mother's murderous lies and claim victory over her own past.For the 2014 Lifetime Movie of the Week see Petals on the Wind.
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Petals on the Wind / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Petals on the Wind / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Madame Zolta shows Cathy a photograph of an extraordinarily beautiful young ballerina, and Cathy is shocked to learn that the photo is of Zolta herself at the beginning of her career.
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Petals on the Wind / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Petals on the Wind / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: All Carrie wants is for her mother to acknowledge her when she meets the latter on the street. She doesn't get her wish. A lot of Julian's emotional issues seem to stem from trying to get his parents' approval. Cathy nips that in the bud when Madam starts taking an interest in Jory's prospective ballet career.
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Petals on the Wind / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Petals on the Wind / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Many people deride this book for shoddy writing, not seeming to realize the story is being told from the perspective of a screwed-up and deeply traumatized woman. Cathy's actions aren't always justifiable—but she portrays them as justified. She portrays men as enraptured with her beauty and falling in love with her instantly—but she seems to solely attract abusive scumbags. She portrays Chris as obsessed with her and constantly making unwanted advances towards her—but often "finds herself" kissing Chris, weeps when he leaves after a visit, and stares at him so often several other people comment on it, making it clear she has her own lingering feelings for him too. Corrine claims that Malcolm knew of her children's existence and knew they were in the attic, but also that he was always lording that fact over Corrine's head, making snide comments that the children should be dead, or even beating her. Cathy isn't sure if she believes this, knowing full well that Corrine has a talent for making her problems seem greater than the children's. Bart adds a bit more ambiguity to this, saying that Malcolm doted on Corrine when he was still alive and that he never saw any hint that he beat her as punishment. It doesn't help that Corrine spends most of the scene on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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Petals on the Wind / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Petals on the Wind / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Carrie's health problems should not have lingered on as long as they have. Being so young, she would have thrived after treatment for her sunlight deprivation, malnutrition, and arsenic poisoning compared to her older siblings. Instead, however, her growth is stunted and she's forever dainty and pale. Cathy and Chris should have been in worse health than Carrie was with the arsenic poisoning, especially with all of Cathy's dancing causing her to burn more calories than she consumed. Instead Cathy and Chris are both regarded as being incredibly beautiful and good-looking with their health flourishing compared to Carrie's. Cathy's medical emergency during her audition During a D&C procedure, the embryo or fetus is dismembered. It results in a bloody mess of visually identifiable limbs, but not an intact specimen like the one Paul has preserved in a jar. If VC Anderews knew this, Paul could've put Cathy's accusations to rest by telling her so. The plausibly of the "missed periods" explanation of Cathy's medical energy has been debated amongst fans for years. Can missed or delayed periods cause sudden bleeding later on? Then, alongside the real medical plausibly, there's a second, slightly different question: Is this supposed to be considered a plausible idea in-universe?
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Petals on the Wind / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Petals on the Wind / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Even after several years of abusive marriage, Cathy will freely admit that Julian is really hot and great in bed, if nothing else.
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Petals on the Wind / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Petals on the Wind / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life/Rescue Sex/Sexual Extortion: Downplayed Trope. Cathy at multiple points states that she feels like she owes Paul for taking in her and her siblings when they were so desperately in need. For his part, Paul insists that they do not owe him anything.
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Petals on the Wind / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Petals on the Wind / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: When Cathy starts bleeding and is rushed to the hospital, when she gets D & C (dilation and curettage). At the time it's said to be missed periods that clotted. Later, Amanda claims it was an abortion and that there was an embryo. It's not, but it could have been a miscarriage. Given the timing, this would've been her baby with Chris via attic sex. Amanda claimed there was "a two-headed embryo with three legs—twins who didn't separate properly." Scientists still aren't sure what causes Conjoined Twins. It mostly seem to be a random chance event, although inbreeding and exposure to toxins have been suggested as possible risk factors. Regardless of the actual science, in Cathy's mind there's a strong association between incest and misformed babies, and this brings those fears to the forefront. Corrine's claims that Malcolm not only knew about the children but putting them in the attic was his idea and he was also regularly degrading and beating Corrine while he was still alive. It's unknown if there's any truth to this. Bart claims he never saw a mark on Corrine and that Malcolm doted on her. Olivia gives Corrine looks that Cathy interprets as either dispute to her claims or as Olivia simply keeping Cathy's attention off her. Compounding it further is how Corrine tended to play the victim through Attic whenever Cathy called her out for Moving the Goalposts and several times it's mentioned that Corrine's hands go for her neck as though to fiddle with her pearls. It's also worth considering that Corrine's story is being told through Cathy's biases which may have altered her recollection of the event. In the end, Cathy isn't sure what she believes regarding Corrine's story.
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Petals on the Wind / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
Petals on the Wind / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Nearly every male character in the book. Paul admits to raping his first wife Julia because she was too beautiful for him to resist. Julia told him he was never to touch her again and insisted on a Sexless Marriage, and he then used the same logic to explain away his numerous extramarital affairs. Finally, he is unable to resist the beautiful now-17-year-old Cathy, even though he has legally adopted her. Chris claims that he only had sex with Cathy's roommate because Cathy wouldn't put out. To be fair, she was explicitly telling him he should go find someone else. Bart has an affair with Cathy since his wife has become increasingly distant from him. Julian's mother blames Cathy for his frequent cheating, claiming that he does it in the first place because she doesn't show him enough love, then keeps doing it because her uncaring reaction even further cements his belief that she doesn't love him.
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Petals on the Wind / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Petals on the Wind / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Cathy and Paul hook up when she's 17 and he's 42. He specifically refers to them as "April and September." These slightly closer months are more true of their actual ages, and they're also their birth months respectively.
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Petals on the Wind / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
Petals on the Wind / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Paul notes that the time of Julia's pregnancy was probably the only time in their marriage when they were genuinely happy and that whatever problems they had afterwards, she was always a loving and devoted mother to their son. Cathy sees her pregnancy as a chance to reconcile with Julian; it doesn't work, he still kills himself after finding out. She sees her second pregnancy as the final thing to ensure Bart leaving her mother for her; it also doesn't work, as though while he might have done this, he's killed before he can.
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Petals on the Wind / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Petals on the Wind / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Cathy consciously struggles not to be like her mother.
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Petals on the Wind / int_26577944	type	Model Couple
Petals on the Wind / int_26577944	comment	Model Couple: Madame Marisha wants Cathy and Chris as one.
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Petals on the Wind / int_28ea0e57	type	Cock Fight
Petals on the Wind / int_28ea0e57	comment	Cock Fight: In a downplayed, comedic, and unusually innocent version, Paul and Chris vie for the position of Cathy's next husband by being good stepfathers to her son Jory and buying him lots of stuffed animals.
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Petals on the Wind / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
Petals on the Wind / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: Carrie never fully recovers from losing her twin. She chooses to commit suicide via the same means that killed Cory, and states in her suicide note that no one ever really needed her more than he did.
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Petals on the Wind / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
Petals on the Wind / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body/Dead Man's Chest: Implied Trope. Cathy reveals she found a room connected to the attic and the main stairway with a strange smell in it. When Corrine runs away to start the fire, she chose that room specifically to start it in.
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Petals on the Wind / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Petals on the Wind / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: Downplayed. Toward the end of the novel, Cathy marries Paul, who has suffered a major heart attack. They have sex exactly once after that, and take it easy. Paul dies a day later. This is treated as a coincidence.
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Petals on the Wind / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Petals on the Wind / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Julian breaks Cathy's toes after she returns to him. Cruel in the first place, even more so given that she's a ballerina.
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Petals on the Wind / int_39c6cac7	type	Shed the Family Name
Petals on the Wind / int_39c6cac7	comment	Shed the Family Name: Julian changed his name to distance himself from his parents both in a professional and personal capacity. Chris is proud to be adopted by Paul and uses the surname Sheffield for the rest of his life; he's more than happy to be rid of both Dollanganger and Foxworth, considering the former a lie and the second a blight. Much later, when they finally marry, Cathy and Chris take the name Sheffield as part of their disguise.
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Petals on the Wind / int_3e0c789e	type	Thoroughly Mistaken Identity
Petals on the Wind / int_3e0c789e	comment	Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: When they confront Corrine at the very end, she speaks to her son Chris as if he's her late husband who he so much resembles.
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Petals on the Wind / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Petals on the Wind / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Downplayed Trope, but Madame Zolta to Cathy.
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Petals on the Wind / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Petals on the Wind / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: What Julian tells Cathy about Madame Zolta
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Petals on the Wind / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Petals on the Wind / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: As tortures go, it's pretty light, but Cathy finally does get to inflict some physical pain on the now-senile and disabled grandmother. She is a bit horrified by herself for it.
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Petals on the Wind / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
Petals on the Wind / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: Jory and Bart Jr. to Cathy after Julian and Bart's deaths, respectively.
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Petals on the Wind / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
Petals on the Wind / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: Cathy sometimes thinks there's more to Julian—he has a Freudian Excuse after all! But ultimately no. He's just a dick who is also a gifted dancer.
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Petals on the Wind / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Petals on the Wind / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Corrine finally snaps in front of Cathy and Bart, revealing why she imprisoned her children.
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Petals on the Wind / int_4e0444f2	type	No Guy Wants to Be Chased
Petals on the Wind / int_4e0444f2	comment	No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Bart at times claims he's put off by Cathy's pointed pursuit of him. But—as she demonstrates—he's also annoyed when she makes no effort. What he really wants is for her to pursue him without seeming like it.
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Petals on the Wind / int_4fa68c72	type	Like Parent, Like Spouse
Petals on the Wind / int_4fa68c72	comment	Like Parent, Like Spouse: More prominent here than in the last book is the implication that this is a motive for both Chris and Cathy's attraction to each other.
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Petals on the Wind / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Petals on the Wind / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Trampy Yolanda dies in the car accident that crippled Julian, not long after taunting Cathy about how she has replaced her in their bed. The womanizing Julian dies too, although that's suicide due to despondency over his injuries.
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Petals on the Wind / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
Petals on the Wind / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: We know that Julian put Cathy on a pedestal very early on, and that his conceptualization of her had little to do with who she really was. What did he imagine her to be? That's somewhat less clear. Cathy herself says she never really understood Julian's internal life. We know there's some inner conflict going on there, and we get parts of it, but we never get the full picture—and that's the point. Cathy had a literal one of these: a dark-haired imaginary partner with whom she used to dance in the attic, his face always hidden in shadow. Every time she sees a dark-haired man in real life, she wonders if he could be her imaginary lover, and is almost invariably disappointed when they turn out to be complicated, unsatisfactory real men.
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Petals on the Wind / int_5311aa2d	type	Love Father, Love Son
Petals on the Wind / int_5311aa2d	comment	Love Mother, Love Daughter: Cathy very deliberately sets out to seduce her mother's husband.
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Petals on the Wind / int_53243b25	type	Conjoined Twins
Petals on the Wind / int_53243b25	comment	When Cathy starts bleeding and is rushed to the hospital, when she gets D & C (dilation and curettage). At the time it's said to be missed periods that clotted. Later, Amanda claims it was an abortion and that there was an embryo. It's not, but it could have been a miscarriage. Given the timing, this would've been her baby with Chris via attic sex. Amanda claimed there was "a two-headed embryo with three legs—twins who didn't separate properly." Scientists still aren't sure what causes Conjoined Twins. It mostly seem to be a random chance event, although inbreeding and exposure to toxins have been suggested as possible risk factors. Regardless of the actual science, in Cathy's mind there's a strong association between incest and misformed babies, and this brings those fears to the forefront.
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Petals on the Wind / int_54725e95	type	Omnidisciplinary Lawyer
Petals on the Wind / int_54725e95	comment	Omnidisciplinary Lawyer: Bart is the same lawyer who drew up Malcolm Foxworth's will, indicating he's a probate attorney. But Cathy hires him to handle her late husband's reluctant life insurance company, implying he's a claims attorney. (Possibly Truth in Television, as it's not uncommon for some attorneys to have a side hustle handling day-to-day issues like claims or probate to tide them over between cases in their major discipline—except that Bart's a millionaire playboy who clearly isn't in this for the money. Man, he must love probate.)
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Petals on the Wind / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Petals on the Wind / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Julian (whose pickup line is "What are you worried about? I won't rape you") is emotionally, physically and sexually abusive toward Cathy, including a memorable scene where, in a fit of rage, he breaks several of her toes. During their marriage, he follows the classic cycle of explosions, regret and apologies, honeymoon phase, growing tension, and then another explosion. Paul Sheffield was emotionally abusive toward his late wife Julia and raped her on several occasions.
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Petals on the Wind / int_59b571c	type	Destroy the Abusive Home
Petals on the Wind / int_59b571c	comment	Destroy the Abusive Home: When Corrine sets fire to Foxworth Hall, she starts it in the room where the children were imprisoned.
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Petals on the Wind / int_5c24cfa1	type	Love Will Lead You Back
Petals on the Wind / int_5c24cfa1	comment	Love Will Lead You Back: Chris—the eternal optimist—spends the better part of the duration of Petals holding out hope Cathy will come back to him at some point. There are points at which he tries dating other people, but that only serves to solidify his certainly that Cathy is the only one for him.
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Petals on the Wind / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
Petals on the Wind / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: Cathy is 15 when Paul becomes their guardian. He lusts after her from the start, they have an affair when she's 17, and eventually, she marries him when she's 27. Enraged when Cathy dumps Paul to marry Julian, Carrie declares that she will marry Paul. It never happens though, and there's no indication that Paul was thinking this way.
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Petals on the Wind / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Petals on the Wind / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Near the end of his life, Paul encourages Cathy to go be happy with Chris.
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Petals on the Wind / int_616a4c	type	Give the Baby a Father
Petals on the Wind / int_616a4c	comment	Give the Baby a Father: Chris is eager to do this, although Cathy turns him down. Years later, she takes him up on it.
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Petals on the Wind / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Petals on the Wind / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Corrine, she secretly attends Carrie's funeral and reveals her father is the one who ordered her to kill her children. Though whether this is true or not is left ambiguous.
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Petals on the Wind / int_6272a974	type	Remarrying for Your Kids
Petals on the Wind / int_6272a974	comment	Remarrying for Your Kids: Downplayed. Cathy wants a husband for herself for all the usual reasons—love, support, companionship, sex, etc—but she also wants a father for her son Jory, and this is a factor she considers in her suitors. And to their credit, Paul, Chris, and Bart are all pretty good to her son.
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Petals on the Wind / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Petals on the Wind / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: All the girls in Carrie's boarding school gang up to bully her. The only girl that tried to defend her ends up being punched in the face. Her main bully faces karma a few short years later by drowning at the age of twelve.
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Petals on the Wind / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Petals on the Wind / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Julian and Paul are demoted to this after Bart dies, when Cathy claims to have fallen in Love at First Sight with him and that a large part of her attraction to Julian and Paul was because of their resemblance to him. Cathy and her siblings may have been this to Paul regarding his first wife and son.
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Petals on the Wind / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Petals on the Wind / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: The other bus passengers, except Henrietta, when Carrie gets violently ill. They really don't like the idea of delaying their schedules long enough to take a child to the hospital. The bus driver shows some concern, but he's worried about losing his job if he holds up the rest of the passengers.
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Petals on the Wind / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Petals on the Wind / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Chris' disapproval of Cathy's relationships with both Paul and Julian are no doubt mostly born of Love Triangle romantic jealousy. But he's absolutely right about Julian's many flaws, and the impropriety of Cathy and Paul's relationship given their age difference and that Paul was their guardian for several years. While the way he ultimately handled it was dreadful, it seems Paul made numerous legitimate attempts at helping Julia get over her sexual fears—buying books on seduction techniques, suggesting she see a therapist—all of which she rebuffed or refused without even trying. She does seem a good bit justified in refusing these attempts, because did he expect these techniques would convince a woman to stop hating her rapist and submit to regular sex with him? Honestly, the best decision at that point would have been to divorce or annul their marriage, as scandalous as it would have been.
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Petals on the Wind / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Petals on the Wind / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Julia murders Scotty on his birthday. Later, Cathy discovers she's pregnant with Julian and Bart's children shortly before each man is killed.
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Petals on the Wind / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Petals on the Wind / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Chris and Paul say strikingly similar things to Cathy just a few chapters apart. If multiple people in your life—both of whom know you well—are telling you the same thing, they might have a point. The parallelism serves to highlight this. At the end, when they're married, Chris comes home to his family at the end of the day and says—just like their father used to say—"Come greet me with kisses if you love me."
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Petals on the Wind / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Petals on the Wind / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Paul's late wife Julian after an accident leaves him paralyzed and unlikely to even walk again, much less dance Carrie, after her mother rejects her
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Petals on the Wind / int_737bd0e4	type	Dainty Little Ballet Dancers
Petals on the Wind / int_737bd0e4	comment	Dainty Little Ballet Dancers: Thoroughly subverted. Cathy goes through grueling hours of practice and rehearsal in order to become a prima ballerina, describing bruises from her partner's lifts, how her armpits are rubbed raw from being lifted, and working on a single routine until she's wringing wet from sweat.
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Petals on the Wind / int_744f2273	type	Jar of the Bizarre
Petals on the Wind / int_744f2273	comment	Jar of the Bizarre: There's an Ambiguous Situation where Cathy spontaneously begins bleeding heavily from the vagina. It may or may not be a miscarriage. An extremely Unreliable Expositor claims there was a "two-headed embryo with three legs — twins who didn't separate properly." Complicating matters, Paul (Cathy's guardian and also the doctor who oversaw her treatment) apparently does have such an artifact, preserved in a glass jar, leading her to believe that he kept and preserved the malformed fetus.
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Petals on the Wind / int_76e24530	type	Delicate and Sickly
Petals on the Wind / int_76e24530	comment	Delicate and Sickly: Carrie is especially frail and weak from arsenic poisoning. Not only that, she is miles behind her peers in weight and height, not getting much taller than 4.5 feet tall when she's an adult.
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Petals on the Wind / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Petals on the Wind / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Cathy continues to struggle against Chris' advances, which eventually grow strong enough to drive her to other men.
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Petals on the Wind / int_77cd56b3	type	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
Petals on the Wind / int_77cd56b3	comment	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Julia, thanks to childhood sexual abuse. Because of the Grandmother's teachings, Carrie also believes that Sex Is Evil (in the first novel, when she's only a child, she begs to sleep beside her dying twin, swearing that they won't do anything bad). The teachings are hammered home when Carrie is molested by Julian as a teenager and is overcome with self-recrimination for enjoying the physical pleasure and male attention, causing her to believe that she is to blame. When Carrie falls in love with Alex, she fears he will demand a physical relationship with her and that he will judge her for her past unwilling experiences. These conflicts plays a role in Carrie's final mental breakdown and ultimately lead to her suicide.
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Petals on the Wind / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
Petals on the Wind / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: Both Madame Marisha and Madame Zolta—stern, Russian dancing mistresses.
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Petals on the Wind / int_7c020e46	type	One-Scene Wonder
Petals on the Wind / int_7c020e46	comment	Paul's sister Amanda flies to New York City armed with photographs and grotesque stories about two-headed babies for no apparent reason other than that she enjoyed ruining lives. Throughout her only scene, she coos backhanded compliments at Cathy and gloats at her distress.
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Petals on the Wind / int_7dad519f	type	Sex Is Evil
Petals on the Wind / int_7dad519f	comment	Sex Is Evil: Julia's response whenever Paul made advances to her was to weep and wail, "Why does it have to be so ugly?" One gets the feeling she would have hated sex even without having been abused as a child. Unbeknownst to Cathy, the Grandmother managed to drill this trope into Carrie's head. Carrie seems to view perfectly normal sexual desire as evil and herself as bad because Julian molested her and she liked it.
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Petals on the Wind / int_87a38662	type	Murder-Suicide
Petals on the Wind / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: Enraged upon learning of Paul's infidelity, Julia drowns herself and their son.
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Petals on the Wind / int_880ce607	type	Vanity Is Feminine
Petals on the Wind / int_880ce607	comment	Vanity Is Feminine: Type A. It is heavily implied that part of Corrine's evil is her obsession with her beauty. Her long absence to a plastic surgeon and a weight-loss spa allows Cathy to move in on Bart.
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Petals on the Wind / int_8bc5b86e	type	One-Shot Character
Petals on the Wind / int_8bc5b86e	comment	One-Shot Character: Carrie's fiance Alex gives one impassioned speech at her deathbed and is never mentioned again, not even at her funeral.
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Petals on the Wind / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Petals on the Wind / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: After Paul's venomous sister visits Cathy and tells her horrible things about Paul—namely, that Julia is still alive—she runs off and impulsively marries Julian. Only afterward does she confront Paul and learn that his sister was lying (or at least, putting a spin on things), meaning she's now trapped in a loveless marriage to an abusive cheat.
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Petals on the Wind / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
Petals on the Wind / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Henny Later, the Grandmother
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Petals on the Wind / int_935212c	type	Feminine Women Can Cook
Petals on the Wind / int_935212c	comment	Feminine Women Can Cook: Played with. Cathy is always fighting against expectations of her to be a stereotypical housewife. When Paul asks if she can cook, she responds that they didn't even have a toaster for three years. She then goes on to say when she's a famous ballerina she will hire someone to do the cooking and cleaning. Played straight with Carrie, whose stated goal in life is to become a housewife and mother. She learns to cook as a way to help Dr. Paul and Henny. By the time she moves out of his house, she's a better cook than Cathy.
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Petals on the Wind / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Petals on the Wind / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Cathy plays the innocent blonde Betty to Yolanda's sultry raven-haired Veronica when it comes to Julian, and to a lesser extent, Chris. Cathy's other roommate, April, is also a "Betty"-type to Yolanda, even though they never explicitly vie for the same man. Cathy mentions that the boys ignore the virginal April in favor of the promiscuous Yolanda. As for Cathy's men: First, Chris is the Betty and Paul is the Veronica. Once Cathy lands Paul, he becomes the Betty and Julian becomes the Veronica. After Julian dies, both Chris and Paul become the Betty, and Bart Winslow becomes the Veronica. For Bart Winslow, Corrine is the Betty and Cathy is the Veronica.
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Petals on the Wind / int_94f517db	type	Discretion Shot
Petals on the Wind / int_94f517db	comment	Discretion Shot: Cathy tells us about the beginning and end of her marriage to Julian, but largely brushes over the middle. This gives a sense that even when she's writing a memoir about the most traumatic parts of her life—and describing some parts of it in great detail—her abusive 5-year marriage is still something she does not want to dwell on.
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Petals on the Wind / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Petals on the Wind / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: After her Motive Rant, Corrine burns down Foxworth Hall.
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Petals on the Wind / int_963e36bd	type	Boarding School of Horrors
Petals on the Wind / int_963e36bd	comment	Boarding School of Horrors: Carrie's private boarding school turns out to be a hellhole where her fellow students torment and very nearly kill her.
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Petals on the Wind / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Petals on the Wind / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Julia refused to see one to help her get over her sexual fears—to the point of laughing in Paul's face when he suggested it—and none of the kids see one despite how clearly screwed up they are from their ordeal.
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Petals on the Wind / int_9838d681	type	DudeMagnet
Petals on the Wind / int_9838d681	comment	Dude Magnet: Cathy has four love interests in the course of this book. However, it's subtly deconstructed. Not a one of them are classically good partner material — for example, all four raped a woman a some point (and she was a victim of all of them except for Paul). The fact that Cathy is consistently pulling the attention of these guys is not a flex, it's not a sign of how hot or enigmatic she is. It's the Birds of a Feather principle: Cathy consistently attracts the attention of messed up men because she herself is messed up.
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Petals on the Wind / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Petals on the Wind / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Paul awakens from a nap and tells Cathy that he was dreaming about Julia and Scotty. He dies very shortly after this conversation, with the implication being that they were waiting for him so that they could be Together in Death as a family.
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Petals on the Wind / int_a16d511d	type	Insecure Love Interest
Petals on the Wind / int_a16d511d	comment	Insecure Love Interest: Carrie is this to Alex.
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Petals on the Wind / int_a36fb848	type	Grand Staircase Entrance
Petals on the Wind / int_a36fb848	comment	Grand Staircase Entrance: An Invoked Trope, Cathy makes her presence known at Bart and Corrine's Christmas party.
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Petals on the Wind / int_a5f5b4e0	type	Playing the Victim Card
Petals on the Wind / int_a5f5b4e0	comment	Corrine claims that Malcolm knew of her children's existence and knew they were in the attic, but also that he was always lording that fact over Corrine's head, making snide comments that the children should be dead, or even beating her. Cathy isn't sure if she believes this, knowing full well that Corrine has a talent for making her problems seem greater than the children's. Bart adds a bit more ambiguity to this, saying that Malcolm doted on Corrine when he was still alive and that he never saw any hint that he beat her as punishment. It doesn't help that Corrine spends most of the scene on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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Petals on the Wind / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Petals on the Wind / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Cathy believes her mother is only feigning insanity at the end of the novel to avoid being convicted for her murder of Cory. Whether this is actually the case or not is never confirmed.
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Petals on the Wind / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Petals on the Wind / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Julian and Paul are demoted to this after Bart dies, when Cathy claims to have fallen in Love at First Sight with him and that a large part of her attraction to Julian and Paul was because of their resemblance to him.
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Petals on the Wind / int_aa9beb0c	type	Straight to the Pointe
Petals on the Wind / int_aa9beb0c	comment	Straight to the Pointe: If Chris is to be believed.
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Petals on the Wind / int_abdc0b3f	type	Held Gaze
Petals on the Wind / int_abdc0b3f	comment	Held Gaze: Chris and Cathy share a lot of these, sometimes without even realizing it, allowing numerous people to pick up on their feelings for each other (see Everyone Can See It).
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Petals on the Wind / int_ae50ca8f	type	Stage Names
Petals on the Wind / int_ae50ca8f	comment	Stage Names: As a young girl, Cathy decided to use Catherine Doll as her stage name. When Cathy actually gets to a performing level of ballet, her teacher says that Catherine Doll is a bad stage name. In a reluctant compromise, they agrees to use Catherine Dahl as her professional name.
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Petals on the Wind / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
Petals on the Wind / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: Picks up right where the first book ended.
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Petals on the Wind / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
Petals on the Wind / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Paul with Julia, although he admits it was wrong. Julian to Cathy, along with some other forms of domestic abuse to round it out. Implied with Bart and Corrine—after he assaults Cathy and she calls him a rapist, he dismissively tells her:
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Petals on the Wind / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Petals on the Wind / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Julia cut Paul off after she had Scotty. Paul and Cathy after they finally get married, due to his weak heart. When they finally do have sex, they have to take it very slow and easy.
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Petals on the Wind / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Petals on the Wind / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Chris' disapproval of Cathy's relationships with both Paul and Julian are no doubt mostly born of Love Triangle romantic jealousy. But he's absolutely right about Julian's many flaws, and the impropriety of Cathy and Paul's relationship given their age difference and that Paul was their guardian for several years.
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Petals on the Wind / int_b9e87cf3	type	Knitting Pregnancy Announcement
Petals on the Wind / int_b9e87cf3	comment	Knitting Pregnancy Announcement: Cathy tells Bart she's pregnant while knitting a baby bunting. He's mad that she deliberately got pregnant without consulting him, and grabs the knitting from her, causing it to unravel.
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Petals on the Wind / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Petals on the Wind / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Chris eventually outlives all of Cathy's other love interests, and becomes her third husband.
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Petals on the Wind / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Petals on the Wind / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Cathy is extremely self-involved. She'll use anything terrible that happens to anyone else including Julian and Carrie's suicides to have her needs met and exact her revenge against her mother.
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Petals on the Wind / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Petals on the Wind / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: In addition to the textual incest with each other, the subtext of Chris and Cathy's relationships with their parents remains ever-present. Averted once, actually! Jory—age 3—tells Cathy that a boy in his preschool class was slapped by his mother for touching her breast. Cathy says it's no big deal, and Jory can touch her breast if he wants. Cathy's internal moment of "They're small children, stop making this incestuous and weird!" is both hilarious and refreshing.
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Petals on the Wind / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Petals on the Wind / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Cathy's first professional ballet job is with Madame Zolta's troupe in New York City.
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Petals on the Wind / int_bf4628aa	type	Romance on the Set
Petals on the Wind / int_bf4628aa	comment	Romance on the Set: Cathy and Julian have amazing onstage chemistry. Julian tries to Invoke this, believing they would actually be a good couple. Cathy is not so convinced, but they give it a try. Deconstructed hard: it's a horrible mess of a relationship, and the fallout falls directly onto their careers.
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Petals on the Wind / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Petals on the Wind / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Cathy dislikes Yolanda instantly, even though they both have hatred for their parents. As noted several times, Cathy jumps through a lot of mental hoops to pin Julian's death on Corrine. However, the same logic could tie Cathy to Carrie's death. Had Cathy left Carrie with Paul she wouldn't have fallen in love with a minister and may never have seen Corrine again.
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Petals on the Wind / int_c3665600	type	Mammy
Petals on the Wind / int_c3665600	comment	Mammy: Henny personifies this trope. She's a huge Southern black lady who cares for her white charges with no complaints—possibly because she's mute.
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Petals on the Wind / int_c4500946	type	Break His Heart to Save Him
Petals on the Wind / int_c4500946	comment	Break His Heart to Save Him: Cathy to Chris.
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Petals on the Wind / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Petals on the Wind / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Cathy blames her mother for Julian's suicide, deciding that had her mother not imprisoned them in the attic, she and Chris would never have had an incestuous relationship. If they had never had an incestuous relationship, she wouldn't have started a relationship with Paul to escape Chris, meaning that she would have been the untouched virgin Julian seemed to need, which would have somehow allowed her to love him completely, thus preventing him from drinking and womanizing out of despondency. If he hadn't been drunk and out with another woman, he wouldn't have gotten into the car accident that paralyzed him, thus driving him to kill himself out of despair that he could never dance again. See? It's all your fault, Momma!
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Petals on the Wind / int_c7853b1e	type	On the Rebound
Petals on the Wind / int_c7853b1e	comment	On the Rebound: Cathy jumps into a relationship with Paul to escape her feelings for Chris. Chris is aware of this early on and very specifically tells her not to. She assures him she won't, and then does anyways. Cathy then married Julian to escape the situation with Paul.
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Petals on the Wind / int_c8c7fb4f	type	DomesticAbuser
Petals on the Wind / int_c8c7fb4f	comment	Domestic Abuser: Cathy's love interests tend to have unsavory characteristics. Julian's a Jerkass domestic abuser with few redeeming qualities who rapes Cathy. Paul was unfaithful to his wife and raped her, eventually driving her to drown their son and kill herself. Bart Winslow has many Jerkass moments, which also include raping Cathy.
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Petals on the Wind / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Petals on the Wind / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: After years of referring to her as "the Grandmother," it becomes a Subverted Trope when Cathy realizes she's never heard her real name, and in morbid curiosity, asks.
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Petals on the Wind / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
Petals on the Wind / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: When Carrie finds out her boyfriend Alex wants to be a minister, she jumps to the assumption he'll be like this because of her past experience with Religious Stereotype characters. There's no evidence Alex actually is or would be, though.
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Petals on the Wind / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Petals on the Wind / int_d308cbb0	comment	Cathy's Character Catchphrase
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Petals on the Wind / int_d39eb836	type	Seduction as One-Upmanship
Petals on the Wind / int_d39eb836	comment	Seduction as One-Upmanship: Cathy spends over a decade planning her Roaring Rampage of Revenge against her mother, the capstone of which is seducing her mother's husband and Baby Traping him.
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Petals on the Wind / int_d5d265ec	type	Housewife
Petals on the Wind / int_d5d265ec	comment	Cathy is always fighting against expectations of her to be a stereotypical housewife. When Paul asks if she can cook, she responds that they didn't even have a toaster for three years. She then goes on to say when she's a famous ballerina she will hire someone to do the cooking and cleaning.
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Petals on the Wind / int_d67d184b	type	Murder Makes You Crazy
Petals on the Wind / int_d67d184b	comment	Murder Makes You Crazy: Implied Trope
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Petals on the Wind / int_da9131af	type	The Baby Trap
Petals on the Wind / int_da9131af	comment	The Baby Trap: Cathy with Bart
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Petals on the Wind / int_db0ffe92	type	Follow in My Footsteps
Petals on the Wind / int_db0ffe92	comment	Follow in My Footsteps: The Rosencoffs are a long line of Russian ballet stars. Madame Marisha claims she tried not to do this with Julian, but she ultimately did. By the time Jory comes along, Madame Marisha is over any such qualms about forcing dance onto kids. Cathy, on the other hand, does not want her son forced into dance.
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Petals on the Wind / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Petals on the Wind / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: Paul gaining custody over the kids looks as if it's going to end in a confrontational Courtroom Episode... but in the end, Corrine turns out to be too rich to subpoena and the scene ends with "and then he adopted us."
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Petals on the Wind / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Petals on the Wind / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Cathy and Chris have a lot of Held Gazes and Longing Looks, and other people notice. Paul Julian. He says it in a moment of anger, designed to be cruel, so it's not clear if he actually believes it's a serious thing occurring—but at the very least he noticed the undertones. Even Carrie tells Cathy that she's picked up on it. Once again, it's because of the way they look at each other.
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Petals on the Wind / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Petals on the Wind / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Corrine. While Corrine is legitimately at the root of many of her children's current issues, Cathy also performs some serious mental gymnastics to blame her for anything and everything that goes wrong with their lives. One example is that Cathy blames Corrine for her attraction to Chris, since she locked them in an attic, setting up the Situational Sexuality and A Shared Suffering that bonded them together. But at the end, when Cathy and Chris get married, Cathy flips this around and says it's Corrine's fault she didn't see they were endgame for so long, because Corrine once told her, "Marry a man with dark, dark eyes, Cathy. Dark eyes feel so terribly intense about everything."
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Petals on the Wind / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Petals on the Wind / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Paul and Julia. She hated sex and rebuffed all his attempts at helping her get over her fears, resulting in their only sex life being when he would force himself on her. After they had their son, she cut him off, and the marriage was apparently not very good outside of the bedroom either, worsening even more once she found out about his adultery—"She stopped speaking to me at all, unless Scotty was around"—culminating in her killing their son and herself to get back at him. Cathy's ill-conceived and hasty marriage to Julian quickly turns into one of the worst decisions of her life, as he is both physically and emotionally abusive and unfaithful.
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Petals on the Wind / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Petals on the Wind / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: Carrie, Carrie, Carrie. She's disastrously ill at the start and her health problems stunt her growth. Every school she goes to has the other students mock her for her size. Her brother in law, Julian, molests her and makes her feel impure the rest of her life. When she has a chance at happiness with her fiance, he wants to become a minister without knowing of her fear of religious people and it makes her doubt the relationship. And then she sees her mother and is Driven to Suicide when she pretends not to know her. The worst thing of all is that Carrie as a character never develops; she's just there to be Cathy and Chris's Morality Pet and her mentality at twenty is the same as when she's eight.
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Petals on the Wind / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Petals on the Wind / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out/Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Cathy's main goal is to get revenge on her mother for what she did to her children.
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Petals on the Wind / int_e621b159	type	A-Cup Angst
Petals on the Wind / int_e621b159	comment	A-Cup Angst: Bart admires Cathy's rear as she's dressing. When she asks what he thinks of her front, he says it's "not bad" and she throws a shoe at him. Since the very next paragraph describes her bra as "tiny," and since she frequently compares her slim, petite dancer's figure to that of her taller, curvier mother, we can guess that cup size is a sore point.
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Petals on the Wind / int_e7cb46d3	type	Satellite Character
Petals on the Wind / int_e7cb46d3	comment	Satellite Character: Because Petals spans 15 years, it becomes most evident in this book that Cathy kind of treats everyone in her life like this. There are moments when we get glimpses into the interiority of other characters, but this is the exception rather than the rule. Particularly apparent with Chris and Carrie. They were main characters in Flowers, but in Petals each of them is mostly living their own life. We get periodic updates on Chris and Carrie, but it's not their story, it's Cathy's, and we tend to only hear about them when it relates to her. Within the Framing Device of this being Cathy's memoir, and Cathy being something of an Unreliable Narrator, this actually makes a lot of sense: in real life, most people do perceive themselves this way to some extent.
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Petals on the Wind / int_e8749dab	type	Teach Him Anger
Petals on the Wind / int_e8749dab	comment	Teach Him Anger: Madame Zolta deliberately provokes Cathy into screaming her at her that she quits, because she wants to see if Cathy has claws.
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Petals on the Wind / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Petals on the Wind / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Yolanda. When she finally gets Julian, she dies in a car accident.
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Petals on the Wind / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Petals on the Wind / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Bart Winslow has many Jerkass moments, which also include raping Cathy.
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Petals on the Wind / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Petals on the Wind / int_ec02c97e	comment	Cathy jumps into a relationship with Paul to escape her feelings for Chris. Chris is aware of this early on and very specifically tells her not to. She assures him she won't, and then does anyways.
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Petals on the Wind / int_edc22fe8	type	Cartwright Curse
Petals on the Wind / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Cathy, and how. Julian, Bart, Paul. She even bitterly lampshades this at the end of the book, wondering why Chris isn't afraid to get together with her, given that "behind me lay a trail of dead men."
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Petals on the Wind / int_f19b5fcf	type	Died on Their Birthday
Petals on the Wind / int_f19b5fcf	comment	Died on Their Birthday: Julia kills Scotty on his 3rd birthday as part of a Murder-Suicide. They both drown.
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Petals on the Wind / int_f829585a	type	Beauty Is Bad
Petals on the Wind / int_f829585a	comment	Beauty Is Bad: Trampy and bitchy Yolanda is—in Cathy's own words—one of the most beautiful women she's ever seen. Though older now, Cathy's mother remains very beautiful. Cathy despises looking so much like the woman who imprisoned them.
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Petals on the Wind / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
Petals on the Wind / int_faf4a043	comment	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: There are quite a few affairs, and—while it's not quite clear where the book falls on this morally—the characters take multiple stances. Paul admits to cheating on his late wife, but excuses himself because she was mentally ill and sexually unresponsive. Cathy actually sympathizes with this story, although this later exchange may indicate that the book is more critical of him. Cathy is well-aware that Julian is attracted to very young girls, but doesn't hold it against him—until she learns he molested her little sister. He also cheats on her with women their same age, like Yolanda. He is portrayed as a dick. Cathy justifies having an affair with her mother's husband Bart as part of her revenge. This is seen as vaguely sympathetic because it's from Cathy's POV, although the book is not entirely uncritical of her, giving voice to other characters criticizing her behavior.
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Petals on the Wind / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Petals on the Wind / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Cathy has sworn revenge upon her mother, resulting in several good examples of revenge tropes. The victim of Cathy's Misplaced Retribution is Bart Winslow. With whom she sleeps with and who is the father of her second son, Bart. All of this without ever telling Winslow the truth until it's too late. Later, Cathy attempts a Reunion Revenge at Foxworth Hall.
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Petals on the Wind / int_fb7cc1ff	type	Master of the Mixed Message
Petals on the Wind / int_fb7cc1ff	comment	Master of the Mixed Message: Cathy is adamant she and Chris cannot be together, but somehow she often "finds herself" kissing him, and won't hold to any of the boundaries that are classically conducive to getting over someone. For example:
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Petals on the Wind / int_fd0925ef	type	Bitch Alert
Petals on the Wind / int_fd0925ef	comment	Bitch Alert: Yolanda is introduced with the information that even her breasts look bitchy. Paul's sister Amanda flies to New York City armed with photographs and grotesque stories about two-headed babies for no apparent reason other than that she enjoyed ruining lives. Throughout her only scene, she coos backhanded compliments at Cathy and gloats at her distress.
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Petals on the Wind / int_feac0f90	type	Ephebophile
Petals on the Wind / int_feac0f90	comment	Ephebophile: Paul, given that Cathy's 15 when he begins lusting after her, and 17 when they consummate their relationship. His sister Amanda claims this is a pattern, although it's hard to know what to believe with Amanda. Cathy is well-aware that Julian is attracted to very young girls, enough to even need to get him to promise to leave Carrie alone. Years later, after Julian's death, she learns that he didn't keep that promise, and molested Carrie when she was 15.
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